The Status of Pesticide Production and Usage in China

There are more than 2,800 pesticide manufacturers in China. More than 20 big factories with the capacity of 5,000-10,000 tons every year about 300 factories can produce technical. 

There are more than 600 active ingredients registered and about 22,000 products (or formulations) to be registered up to 2005. The production amoimt of technical materials was more than 1 million tons last year. The usage of pesticides is about 

28 million tons in terms of active ingredient (approximately 1.4 million tons of formulated product) in amount and 20 million ha every year. Approximately 30-40% yield loss could be avoided. There are 200,000 distributors and more than 400 million small-scale farmers. 

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